The kindness of God : metaphor, gender, and religious language / / Janet Martin Soskice

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827148403321
• Autore: Soskice Janet Martin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-34178-9; 9786611341787; 0-19-154433-7; 1-4356-3358-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Disciplina: 270.082
• Soggetti: Sex role - Biblical teaching; Women - Biblical teaching
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1. Love and Attention: Incarnateness; 2. Imago Dei; 3. Creation and Relation; 4. Calling God 'Father'; 5. Blood and Defilement: Christology; 6. Trinity and the 'Feminine Other'; 7. The Kindness of God: Trinity and the Image of God in Julian of Norwich and Augustine; 8. Friendship: love thy neighbour; 9. Being Lovely: Eschatological Anthropology; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Fathers, sons, brothers, kings. Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? Janet Martin Soskice opens up the Bible's imagery for sex, gender, and kingship, by discussing its place in the central teachings of Christian theology. - ;Fathers, sons, brothers, kings. Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? If Christ is 'the second Adam' and the one on whom all Christian life must be patterned, then what about Eve? This book